Game Development News

APRIL 16, 2024

After carefully considering the many hundreds of nominations, we have a shortlist! Voting on the winners will begin soon, ahead of the awards ceremony on June 20th

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 25, 2023

The awards are open to all games companies with offices in those countries, including developers, publishers, service companies, retail and media, and you can submit your company through here. Games companies in the US, Canada and UK can now enter the GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2023.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In your “simple example”, we spent $60 million on development. Quite often, the marketing budget for a game is equal to, if not greater than, the development cost of the game itself. For our AAA game, we’ll spend $60 million to market it in addition to the $60 million development cost, for a total of around $120 million.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 23, 2023

The awards are open to all games companies with offices in Canada, including developers, publishers, service companies, retail and media, and you can submit your company through here. Those in the UK have until this Friday, and US participants have until Friday, September 8th. The Canada winners will be announced in early November.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 22, 2023

In 2019, Microsoft introduced the Azure Kinect Developer Kit, aiming it at manufacturing, retail, and healthcare markets rather than gaming. As announced in a blog post , the company will stop selling its latest version of the hardware this October or until stocks last. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 8, 2023

The awards are open to all games companies with offices in the US, including developers, publishers, service companies, retail and media, and you can submit your company through here. The US winners will be announced on Thursday, October 5th via a digital show. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It has beefier hardware than the retail console (because it needs to be able to hold and run debug builds of the game). They also have a different version of the console’s operating system for development stuff - they allow us to do things like reset achievements, change locale, connect to PSN/XBL/SwitchOnline, and other various features.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2024

If the executives don't think a pitched game will be able to sell enough copies to be sufficiently profitable with the given costs of development, marketing, and distribution, the pitch won't get the green light. each and how that cost had a huge effect on the feasibility of a game that was expected at a $40 retail price. each to $10.50

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2023

I’ve only ever had the chance to buy a console early once and that was a special dispensation from Nintendo to buy a Wii (at a discount) from them directly as thanks for being a developer on a launch title. Even then, production shortages meant that not everyone was able to get theirs in the first shipment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a result, these physical retail charts can only tell us so much (digital data comes later in the week, and doesn't include subscription). It was a busy week for game releases last week, with Dead Space, Forspoken, Goldeneye and Hi-Fi Rush all available. EA's Dead Space remake was easily the best-selling game.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let us know who is most deserving of an MCV/DEVELOP Award in this 25th anniversary year of celebrating the art and business of UK game development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 18, 2023

Overseen by CEO Jack Emmert, the game studio is currently developing its first title, a project based on the Warhammer IP, in collaboration with retail firm Games Workshop. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox NetEase subsidiary, Jackalope Games, has rebranded to Jackalyptic Games. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 5, 2024

Producing behind-the-scenes "making of" video requires getting a film crew, recording developer interviews, and setting up + filming B-roll footage of the developers doing things (most commonly animators moving wireframes around). One possibility would be making these videos a Collector's Edition pack-in bonus for a retail game.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 29, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Game developers are emotionally involved with their projects, but you have to put that aside sometimes to see what other people see. Once a distributor or retailer has your game, the value of your game changes again. CC BY-SA 2.0,

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2022, the retail store front hit 68 million monthly active users and a peak daily active user base of 34 million. But there’s little doubt that EGS has work to do, in order to get the most out of third party publishers and developers. Success has been hard to come by.

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Game Development News

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of deliberation and thousands of votes, 500 of the UK game industry's brightest and best came together to honour the winners of the 25th anniversary MCV/DEVELOP Awards

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Game Development News

JANUARY 17, 2024

UK retailer GAME is going to stop selling pre-owned video game software soon

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iXie gaming

JUNE 16, 2023

The advent of HTML5 technology has provided developers and publishers with an exceptionally powerful tool to captivate audiences and generate substantial revenue in an exceedingly competitive market. Traditionally, game development necessitated the use of intricate and platform-specific software.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 20, 2023

Lunistice was played with a retail key, and Space was played with a press key provided by the developer. Short and Sweet Reviews of Lunistice and A Space For the Unbound Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" This is a double review of Lunistice and A Space for the Unbound.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Ruth Dickens, programmer at Red Kite Games, explains how she went from being a science student at university to working on a retail release starring the gremlin Ninja of the Nth Dimension thanks to the Sumo Digital Academy

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This digital transformation wave affected several industries, from retail to healthcare, from hospitality to financial services. Gaming companies, both developers and publishers, have also aimed to capitalize on the vast amount of data and intellectual capital they have, in order to reinvent themselves and branch out into different ventures.

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Game Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Of course, this still happens, but the rise of digital sales has significantly diminished their financial significance, and thereby the power of GameStop, America’s biggest physical games retailer. Over the years, various attempts to diversify into digital retailing, mobile phones and, most recently, NFTs, have come to nothing.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’ll use the game development process – from start to finish – as an example. Creating a board game for Kickstarter is a process which involves the following sub-processes: Game Development Sub-Processes.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

From a business perspective, selling physical copies allows game developers and publishers to establish partnerships with retail stores and expand distribution channels. Digital storefronts allow game development companies to reach a global audience without the need for physical distribution channels.

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Games retailer GameStop has released its financial report for Q3 of the current fiscal year, and the numbers highlight continued losses for the embattled company. ” GameStop’s steady decline in profitability has been well-documented at this point, and has had many unexpected developments, including the meme stock to-do from 2021.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail, you’ve probably heard the advice “go to cons.” Why are cons so useful for getting into retail or even launching a Kickstarter? Molly: It helps you get into retail if your product, you, or your company, is recommended by other retailers. Molly: Yeah.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The list of finalists for this year’s Game Developers Choice awards has been announced

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Kenyan indie developer cherishes that early morning spark. He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. After university, Mwangi landed a job at Tunu, a Kenyan startup that merges gamification and retail. Over the years, his job title evolved from Animator to Lead Developer.

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Game Development News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Liverpool's Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced that he intends to develop a new generation of video game creators in the region - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

For gamers, the most interesting product is the company’s newest entry into the virtual reality market, in the form of Meta Quest 3, which will be launched in August next year with a retail price of $500 for the 128 GB version, with a pricier 512 GB option also available.

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OPM Jobs

AUGUST 31, 2022

We’re proud to be partnering with MCV/Develop to bring you the 2022 30 Under 30 – this time with a live ceremony! The 30 Under 30 winners will be invited to and announced at IRL 2022 – and featured shortly afterwards in the November issue of MCV/DEVELOP. with the required information. What is required for nomination?

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2023

If you want to optimize the amount of your purchase that goes to the developers, the best choice is probably the Epic Game Store. Epic is much more developer-friendly and takes 12% of their revenue. Beyond this, one of the best ways to support the developers of a game is to buy DLC.

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Game Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Tim Sweeney’s stage presence isn’t likely to attract the attention of the Oscars or Grammys live show organizers, but in yesterday’s State of Unreal presentation at Game Developer Conference, he fairly electrified his audience. His nerdy mannerisms aren’t something he decided to develop in order to gain social favor.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Companies have limited resources and can only spend their time developing the best of the best. They could be manufacturers, retailers, designers, or playtesters. Board game publishers have to sort good from bad. Most people already get this.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games has unveiled Now on Epic , which will allow companies that bring their existing titles to the Epic Game Store to earn 100% of their revenue during the first six months.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

One example is Christina Grace, a senior producer who currently works for developer Caged Element. ” Developers who suddenly find themselves in urgent need of a job are a common sight on places like Twitter. She is running a Google Doc for unemployed gaming workers. At the time, staff were told further layoffs would not occur.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For example, the DIY home improvement retail market was valued at $848.20B in 2021 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.73% from 2022 to 2030. The result of tapping on others is either reward or punishment 100 Mystery button games This trend didn’t go unnoticed by game developers.

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